Want 2 Help create new OS?

[Faust]

quote:Originally posted by X11:
WHY NOT WRITE AN OPERATING SYSTEM IN COBOL

I believe ATM's are COBOL oriented... or at least were in the old days... my dad was saying something about cobol batch processing...

oh and i agree with the script kiddy comment but not the (flagrantly tacky) picture.

this guy is just a code kiddy grabbing technical terms and looking for respect...

sort of like... no I wont say it, at least other people try programming before they talk about writing their own OS mr "datacide."

re macs : yes lets make copy apple-c instead of control-c like every other fucking OS...

[Faust]

Love that website btw... must be 10 whole years of script kiddie experience all condensed into that one...

go the 2600 club! btw any of them even know anything about wave physics?

[Datacide]

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[Datacide]

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[Datacide]

FU<K!!!!! LiNk!!!

[Master of Reality]

......*sigh*... you see the picture that looks like a piece of paper with a pencil beside it "editing" the piece of paper?.... well you can click on that to edit your posts.
anyways.... as someone said in that thread... your probly better off trying to take the linux kernal and build off of that basically building your own custom linux. But if your going to do that and want it not to be like any other of the 300 linii then you will probly want to have a certain goal for your system..... like OpenBSD with its main thing being security and smoothwall being a firewall and mandrake being user friendly.

[ April 04, 2003: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / Bob ]

[silentwarrior]

HUH...you said you gonna make new OS by mixure of win,linex and mac..do you think you can build exact software out of these thing? are these people mad that they have at least some of the bad things...do you REALLY THINK combination of Ferarri, Lamborghini and Maserati will make best car? haha

[Pantso]

If you wanna do something Datacide, then get the FUCK on with it! Why do you waste so much time, wandering from one forum to the other, telling that people flamed you in this one?   :eek:  

If you really had planned something, then you would already have started a project on Sourceforge. So, get on with it? What are you waiting for?    

PS: Oh, and try to edit your posts next time before, posting the same thing thrice!  

[Datacide]

OK. Fine.

[rtgwbmsr]

My opinion:
Write an outline. Kinda what refalm said, but I'll take it to the next level here.

1) Think about licensing and open-source, and all of the stuff Refalm said.

2) Open a project with sourceforge

3) Map out a stuctural diagram of your OS. It will be complex, but it should be, because OSes are complex.

4) Decide which language you want to write each piece in. Some parts should be portable (easy to port to other platforms), some parts should be fast. You have to make the distinction as to what should be written in what.

5) Code, compile and test the bootloader.

----DO NOT PROCEED PAST HERE UNTIL EVERYTHING ELSE ABOVE IS DONE----

6) Start coding the core OS, and IO systems.

7) Compile, test, and debug the core OS and IO systems. Get the OS to load from the bootloader This process could take months...

7) Build on it from there. Don't be afraid to include other people's code in there if their license allows it. Why recode what others have already done?

PM Me if you need more help/guidance.
Post updates here too.

[ April 04, 2003: Message edited by: The Muffin Man ]

[flap]

No, no, implement the spell checker first. Then the animated cursors.

[rtgwbmsr]

quote:Originally posted by flap:
No, no, implement the spell checker first. Then the animated cursors.

But you need something to run the animated cursors and the spell checker on no? A blank screen isn't a great environment for these things...

[flap]

No, I'm sorry but you have to develop the spell checker first. It's the most fundamental component of the OS, just before the kernel, the animated cursors and the address book.

[Faust]

quote: ......*sigh*... you see the picture that looks like a piece of paper with a pencil beside it "editing" the piece of paper?.... well you can click on that to edit your posts.

Dont tell him to edit his posts you ungrateful fool!  The ability to see the true mastery of HTML that this giant of a man possesses leaves me only to ponder how much more i must learn in such piddly object oriented and compiled languages such as C++ and eiffel before I even begin to approach his skill.  It disghusts me how thousands of people world over are led to believe that C* and asm are harder than HTML.  I mean back off! If the legend datacide can make mistakes in HTML then it gives hope to me.

Real thoughts : ! He cant handle HTML and he thinks he can write his own OS.  BTW "datacide" a (supposedly) "trendy" nickname and the ability 70 wR173 L1k3 tH12 do not a good programmer make. Why not post a "1337" program you've previously written so we can all look at it and learn?  Oh and copy pasting X11's menu program just because its readily available wont help.  If you want to write a new OS then you *will* have written at least 1 program before this yeah?  Oh and me and my firends have a bet so can you answer this question - are you closer to 10 years old or 12?

[Faust]

quote:shout out at datacide@msn.com

Cool I've been meaning to see how much mail I can give one address on an 8 meg connection...
Or possibly see if I can find all the nimda infected files that infest my university halls Debian server and pass them on so to speak.
Hey webmaster next time he posts can you give us his IP real quick before he gets it reassigned? I'd very much like to get info on what OS he is currently running... 8-)